Another death on the ACLU’s conscience

The deinstitutionalizing of the mentally ill in the 1970s followed directly from the ACLU lawsuits against committment of the mentally ill. This followed the movie, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” That is a damn poor way of making public policy but that is what we have. Now we have one more murder to chalk up to the ACLU. Here is another such example. Mental health professionals worry about the effects. Still, nothing is done.The legal situation is chaotic. But still people, psychotic and their victims, continue to die.

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One Response to “Another death on the ACLU’s conscience”

  1. doombuggy says:

    The more I learn about the ACLU, the less I like them. Or should I say the more I hate them.

    I especially dislike the ACLU’s “blackmail” form of argument e.g. …if we let authorities incarcerate the paranoid schizophrenics, soon they will incarcerate normal people who occasionally utter a curse word, so for your safety you must do what the ACLU wants, or else…

    A couple quotes from the links:

    —-I can point you to other examples of people who had come to the attention of the courts and were clearly insane, but were released.—-

    —- Civil liberty advocates have changed state laws to such an extent that it is now virtually impossible to assist in the treatment of psychotic individuals unless they first pose extreme and imminent danger to themselves or society.—-

    The Court has not served us well.

    The legal system has a lot of immunity from their bad decisions, and thus we get situations like this. To put it another way, the feedback mechanisms for bad decisions are weak and ineffective.